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DEFINITION: n. The type of headache you get from buying too many things with your credit card. Note: Symptoms do not usually appear until the following month.v. To buy yourself a huge credit card headache.
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Buygraine
Created by: xMelody
Pronunciation: by-grayn
Sentence: He had been caught up in an 8 hour Ebay whirlwind and he could already feel a buygraine coming on
Etymology: buy, migraine
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COMMENTS:
He needs to take some Buylenol..good word. - Nosila, 2009-07-16: 12:10:00
;D - xMelody, 2009-07-16: 16:03:00
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Expentorture
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: ex - pend - tore - chur
Sentence: Jonathan was subjected to painful expendtorture every month when his credit card bills arrived. It hurt his brain to contemplate how to pay for his compulsive spending.
Etymology: expenditure, torture
Enderythralgia
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˌɛndəɹɪˈθɹældʒiə/
Sentence: Enderythralgia is quite common and most medical experts consider it a rational response, and thus not a true pathology. Endomelanalgia (pain caused by _not_ being in the red) is a much rarer and more serious condition.
Etymology: end- (in) + erythr- (red) + -algia (pain) "pain caused by being in the red"
Shoppang
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: shop/pang
Sentence: A shoppang set in with the arrival of my MasterCard bill in the mail.
Etymology: shoppang - shop + pang (a sudden feeling of mental, or emotional distress)
Buygraine
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: buy-grain
Sentence: after a hectic week on e-bay i started coming down with a very bad buygraine
Etymology: buy, migraine
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COMMENTS:
Sounds payinfull. Great word! - galwaywegian, 2007-07-04: 05:02:00
Yes, very good. - Clayton, 2007-07-04: 12:03:00
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Cranialcreditsyndrome
Created by: weareallbeautiful
Pronunciation: k-ray-nee-'l-k-red-it-sin-dro-m
Sentence: He felt a wave of cranialcreditsyndrome come upon him as he looked at the credit card bill from last month.
Etymology: From the word cranial meaning of the skull from the medieval latin root cranium which was from the greek kranium meaning skull which was related to the word kara meaning head
Debtache
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: det-ake
Sentence: When she got the credit card bill, she went into lamentstrual syndrome and developed a paymentdoozy of a debtache.
Etymology: debt, headache
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COMMENTS:
I was *this* close to stealing your word. - Clayton, 2007-07-04: 12:06:00
You stole my credache! That's what I get for sleeping in. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-04: 13:56:00
drunk yet Purple or high - it is the 4th of July - fireworks? - which reminds me of a song "Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight. Afternoon delight" - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 15:54:00
Well Jabber, ya cursed me twice. Now I have a song stuck in my head to accompany my sinus headache. Rained all day here. It's only 60 degrees. The highlight of my day was yanking up a garlic bulb that's the size of an onion. I may have to find a site to post a pic. (cracking open a beer in honor of the Starland Vocal Band) - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-04: 17:33:00
Way to go purple - happy 4th of July - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 19:22:00
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Tabtion
Created by: Lapper
Pronunciation: TAB-shun
Sentence: Rick put the 48'' plasma-screen TV on his credit card because he wanted it so much, but later had a tabtion headache over the fact that the minimum payment was twelve hundred dollars a month.
Etymology: Tab and tension
Comments:
Sounds debititating!
Oops, that was meant to be a comment on credache!
Today's definition was illustrated by Franke James. Thank you Franke. ~ James